Staff Software Engineer Resume Austin, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Software developer with extensive involvement in real time embedded software, device driver/firmware, and application.
Highly self - motivated, easy going, always enthusiastic about my work, team player with strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem-solving skills, quick leaner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software Languages: C, C++, ARM Assembly, Fortran

OS: Embedded Linux, UCOS, MQX, Windows, Vxwork Codec

Video codec: Mpeg2, H.264, DV&DVCPRO

Audio codec: Mpeg Audio, Dolby AC-3

Video/Audio formats: Mpeg2 program & transport stream, MpegES, HLS, IMX, DV, AES/EBU, MXF

Coding tools: Code debuggers - GDB, JTAG

Code managements: SVN, ClearCase, Git, CVS, SourceSafe

Cross-platform tools: GNU tool chain, RVDS

Media Framework: GStreamer

Processors: ARM, Intel

Software Engineering: Complete life cycle. Real-Time Embedded Software development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, TX

Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Key engineer in team to design and develop low level components of video subsystem, including Linux kernel driver and video firmware in multi - thread, multi-processor environment.
Initiate and address architecture issues from video subsystem; Write design specifications and oversee progresses.
Triage and solve critical customer raised video related issues.
Maintain and improve ucos BSP code on ARM926 for video firmware.
Main contributor to multi-processors communications/synchronization mechanisms for video subsystem.Work summary at Application/Customer support team:
Provide technical support for TWC RDK based IP-STB: development and first tier debugging and failure analysis, mainly focus on Gstreamer/OMX-IL/PVR middleware components.
Implemented AVC encode DXVA driver on Window 7/Vista for Ivy Bridge Intel integrated GPU: with tight schedule successfully integrated HW design and driver code for AVC encoding.
Investigated and fixed multiple decoding and encoding bugs of Intel media driver from internal and external reports. Helped the new product delivered on time.
Involved into new chip stepping(Sandy Bridge) power on tests, identified a mpeg2 decoding defect on a new stepping.
Ported and customized OpenCV image algorithms into IPhone platform based on company specific application needs.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented recording and playback pipeline for both video/audio streams on new I/O boards.
Lip sync video, audio and metadata streams for playback and recording processes on multiple product lines.
Implemented FPGA drivers for capture and playback of video/audio/vanc streams; worked with hardware engineers to debug hardware issues.
Implemented a demon application to stream video&audio contents between Sony XDCAM and Video Server through TCP/IP network.
Integrated DSP(TI C645) based software codec into I/O board, including mpeg2(HD/SD), DV, DVCPRO(25, 50, 100) encoding/decoding, worked with codec team to optimize and debug DSP software codec.
Implemented Xscale 80314 DMA engine driver, added capacity to run multi - DMA engines simultaneously.
Implemented simulcast playback on I/O board with up and down converter support.
Implemented video metadata playback and record, including: vanc(for HD); uncompressed vbi (for SD); close caption(EIA 608/708); time code(LTC and VITC); AFD.
Modified legacy single channel code on multi-channel I/O board for new product lines.
Designed and developed drivers for multiple components on new I/O board, increased functionality and usability.
Worked closely with QA group, resolved bugs and customer raised issues.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Implemented one Mpeg2 element stream software decoder with MMX optimization.
Designed and implemented one parallel algorithm on dual CPU system for HD mpeg2 decoding.
Designed and implemented one downscaling algorithm for digital video signal conversion from HD to SD on Video Server. (Won AIM award at NAB 2005).
Integrated the following software codec (both encoding and decoding) for MPEG2(SD&HD, I - only&long-gop) and DV stream on Video Server: MainConcept, Ligos-MPL, Matrox DSX codec.
Implemented random (including reverse) playback of long-gop mpeg2 video stream on Video Server.
Added 3D features on Video Server by using OpenGL and NVIDIA GeForce GPU.
Implemented video effects with Pinnacle Targa card on Video Server.
Imported and exported MXF stream (or file) between Video Server and MXF enabled equipments.
Transcoded the following video/audio formats (from live stream or file) into Video Server:
Integrated Ligos-MPL audio decoder on Video Server for both Mpeg audio and Dolby AC-3 audio stream random playback with NLE.
Implemented one Mpeg Audio (layer1&2&3) decoder based on Window ACM for audio playback on Video Server.
Implemented an audio sample frequency conversion algorithm on Video Server.
Implemented one low (high)-pass algorithm for audio streaming and playback.